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From: Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
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Subject: Re: No sort by memory in top command?
Date: 2 Oct 2015 18:38:06 GMT
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On 2015-10-02, Ant <ANTant@zimage.com> wrote:
> Hello.
>
> Is it me or does Mac OS X's Terminal's top command not have a sort by 
> memory like in Linux? I cannot find anything about it with parameters, 
> keys, etc. online and in its man guide. I know, I can use Activity 
> Monitor GUI, but I'm old school and use Terminal a lot. FYI, I have 
> not installed MacPort/HomeBrew/Fink yet due to other issues. ;)
>
> Thank you in advance. :)

It's right there in the man page:

-o <key>
Order the process display by sorting on <key> in descending order.  A +
or - can be prefixed to the key name to specify ascending or descending
order, respectively.  The supported keys are:
.
.
.
mem    Internal memory size.
rprvt  Resident private address space size.
purg   Purgeable memory size.
vsize  Total memory size.
vprvt  Private address space size.
kprvt  Private kernel memory size.
kshrd  Shared kernel memory size.

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